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Tuesday, 30 December 2014

After much frustration searching for a light and stable but quirky (a few bug you have to learn to work around) WM that addresses the fundamental short comings of the usual candidates I think I may have found it.

It still has some things I need to over come. Stuff I want but it seems the nearest thing I've found so far. windowlab.

Usage:
Alt+"push/drag" on the edges of the active window to resize
Alt+F11 for full screen
Alt+F12 send active window down the stack
Alt+Tab scroll back
Alt+q scroll forewords

I'm getting a few crashes/freezes opening applications with multiple windows. Gmplayer crashes windowlab as does bashrun2. I really hope there is a fix as it's the dogs danglies when it comes to usage.

Users and channels in European languages go left to right so if you use tabs they squash up and become less readable. Much better to have vertical channels. These could either toggle or use slide-bars to get out of the way

Similar to ChatZilla with the channel tree plugin or Loqui

where you do get dead space then an option to combine user and channel in the same column like in loqui makes good sense.

Nothing worse than trying to scroll back through a single line of text to re-read a long sentence. Hence some sort of expandable typing area is required. Again either on a toggle or drag-able slidebar

The next thing is alerts for stalking/monitoring. Both visual and audible alerts are required with good customization options.

The option to turn on or off channel joins and parts on a per channel basis